Plagiarism: Words and Ideas.
Plagiarism is a crime against academy. It deceives readers, hurts plagiarized authors, and gets the plagiarist undeserved benefits. However, even though these arguments do show that copying other people’s intellectual contribution is wrong, they do not apply to the copying of words. Copying a few se...
| Published in: | Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 14; no. 3; pp. 311 - 323 |
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Sep2008
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